Extended Nominations and Query Post #1

[mimihylea]

 

Thanks everyone for your nominations so far! Due to AO3’s technical issues earlier this week and where we’re currently at with processing nominations, we’re extending nominations by two days to Tuesday March 10 at 9pm EDT. We still plan to open sign ups on schedule on Thursday the 12th. We’re still working through the nomination queue, but if not all of yours have been approved, please see the questions and clarifications below. 

Please nominate characters in the character slot, and worldbuilding topics in the relationship slot (formatted as "WB: Topic (Canon)"). Relationships ("Character A/Character B") will be rejected. Worldbuilding tags nominated in the character slot will be rejected.

For the following fandoms, please edit nominations to use character slots for characters and relationship slots for worldbuilding topics:

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Loki (TV 2021)

Please don't nominate specific types of original characters other than gender. For example, "Original Female Character(s) (DC Comics)" can be nominated, but not "Original Superhero Character(s) (DC Comics)". For the following fandoms, please edit nominations to avoid specific types of original characters (but worldbuilding prompts that might use such characters are welcome):

Harry Potter (Books Only)

For the following fandoms: we have questions about the fandom as nominated, or about one or more worldbuilding tags. If you’re the nominator, please include a link to your nominations page in your response.

Disco Elysium (Video Game) - For WB: First Meeting(s) and WB: You held a young woman by the arm and kept her in your apartment for 20 minutes against her will, the first is very broad and the second is very specific. Can you clarify how these are worldbuilding tags? For WB: Cunoesse's Backstory, this seems more like a character study tag--can you clarify?

Fire Emblem: Awakening - For WB: Future children trying to deal with knowing their younger parents in the present and WB: Future children´s relationships and/or memories of their parents, these seem more like plot or character study prompts--can you clarify how they are worldbuilding?

Gladiator (Movies - Scott) - For WB: The illness affecting Emperor Caracalla, can you clarify how this is a worldbuilding tag distinct from real-world illnesses? 

If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device (Web Series) - Several nominated but unapproved tags seem more like plot prompts than worldbuilding; can you clarify?

Minecraft: Story Mode (Video Game) - For WB: Exploring a Woodland Mansion, this seems more like a plot prompt--can you clarify how it is worldbuilding? For WB: Exploring features from a mod of your choice, this exchange doesn't generally use "creator's choice" tags; can you specify a target mod? For WB: Xara's Escape Attempts from the Sunshine Institute, this seems more like a character prompt than worldbuilding, would you be okay with this being changed to just WB: Escape Attempts from the Sunshine Institute? 

Moon Knight (Marvel Comics) and Moon Knight (Original Ultimate Marvel Universe) - Several nominated but unapproved tags seem to be more plot prompts or character studies than worldbuilding; can you clarify?

Phantasy Star - For WB: Odin and Myau's pre-game adventures, this seems more like a plot and/or character study prompt; can you clarify how it is worldbuilding?

If you nominated a tag that was rejected and you don’t think it should have been, or if a fandom you nominated was approved along with some but not all of the associated characters or WB tags, please let us know your nominations page.

Comments

[mimihylea]

Thank you for explaining! Would "WB: Differences between the future and present worlds" and/or "WB: Relationships with current and future versions of the same character(s)" fit what you're looking for? You'll still be able to request them with the specific character(s) you're interested in in the characters slot, but this lets us keep the worldbuilding tags a little more in scope.

Descriptions of a referenced setting (such as WB: Future world under Grima's reign) is certainly in scope and welcome!

Dialogue vs journalistic text does not need a WB tag; you'll just want to specify Fanfiction vs In-Universe Media when you signup

[lovelytomeetyou]

Yes! All of them work! I'll start with the Future world under Grima's reign as the main tag since it's the aspect I'm most curious about. I've added all three as they fit what I was aiming for. Thank you!

Perfect then! I submitted the renamed tags.

Also, one question: I see a fandom that interested me a lot in the nominations. When offering, can I answer the request for that fandom or do I write an offer mentioning the fandom/characters? I'm not quite sure how to proceed in ao3 for the next part but I'll await the post when it's time, maybe my questions will be answered there!

[mimihylea]

Excellent, thank you, we've approved them! For signups, you'll be able to request and/or offer anything from the tagset. For offers, that'll just be listing the fandoms, characters, worldbuilding tags, and mediums you're interested in creating for/in, and that's what we'll use to match you up with a recipient. For requests, that can include do-not-wants for your creator to avoid and optional details such as prompts or likes, and if you see a request you're particularly interested in you're welcome to create for it as a treat if you don't end up being assigned it!

[lovelytomeetyou]

Thank you! Understood, I think I got the hang of offers. For requests, I might have some questions down the line but I'll let you know if that's the case! And I might indulge in a treat so let's see what happens! Or maybe pitch hit if I know the fandoms but don't want to promise something and not fulfill it later.

On another note, I joined an exchange that had a similar tagset type (WB: prefix ones) and had some questions there. For this one, I'll see if I have any questions checking the platform but since I've been here since the nominations phase, all good for now! Thank you for your patience always!